Content note: A caricature of the Arkansas governor at his desk with a newspaper headline of an election win and a US rifle with fixed bayonet, as published in the Washington Evening Star. This object is shown as it was published. Why
With this Issue I couldn't lose
A smiling man with a cigarette sits at a desk with a nameplate reading 'GOVERNOR', holding a newspaper headed 'FAUBUS WINS IN LANDSLIDE!' in one hand and a rifle with fixed bayonet, its stock marked 'U.S.A.', in the other. The cartoon argues that the governor's election win rested on his confrontation with federal troops; the caricature and the bayonet prop are an example of name-calling by visual association.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- July 31, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Little Rock Crisis
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743268 (NAID 5743268).
Text on the object
FAUBUS WINS IN LANDSLIDE! GOVERNOR U.S.A. JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
